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Top 10 Changes in Flex 4

This week, Adobe released their first official beta of Flex 4, codenamed Gumbo. The release includes a number of major changes. This list gives a high level overview of the items that have changed in the latest version of the popular RIA framework.

Jon Rose
on May 31, 2009
Using JBoss ESB and JBPM for Implementing VMS Solutions

In a new article, Boris Lublinsky discusses how the JBoss middleware platform, specifically JBoss ESB and jBPM (JBoss Business Process Management) can be used to integrate both internal and third-party services to deliver composite services and content in customer-specific forms, including Web services, WAP, portals, and more.

Boris Lublinsky
on May 29, 2009
Pulling Power: A New Software Lifespan

Elizabeth Keogh looks at how Kanban and Feature Injection can play into Behaviour Driven Development, to work together to help identify the most important software, reduce unnecessary artifacts at each stage of development, and produce the minimum necessary to achieve a vision.

Liz Keogh
on May 27, 2009
The Well-Grounded Rubyist, David A. Black

The Ruby language was first released 14 years ago and since that time as experienced great growth with thanks to Ruby frameworks such as Ruby on Rails. This book covers intricate details of the Ruby language today, including the latest Ruby 1.9.1, and gives developers a solid foundation for creating Ruby applications.

Robert Bazinet
on May 26, 2009
Metamodel Oriented Programming

In this article, Jean-Jacques Dubray questions the belief that code and models are two separate worlds. He presents a unified view of Model Driven Engineering, Architecture and Programming models. In particular, he introduces a novel approach to specify execution element semantics in DSLs.

Jean-Jacques Dubray
on May 26, 2009
Grid Computing on the Azure Cloud Computing Platform, Part 3: Running a Grid Application

In Part 1 of this series we introduced a design pattern for grid computing on Azure, while in Part 2 we developed a grid application in C#. This time we'll run the application, first locally and then in the cloud. In order to do that, we'll need some help from a grid computing framework.

David Pallmann
on May 25, 2009
Introduction to Data Services

This article by Vijay Narayanan, provides an introduction to several aspects of data services that will be of interest to both SOA practitioners and data architects. A general case for data services introduces the article before the author explores specific issues, including: definition of need, rationale and benefits, scope, development, and consumption patterns.

Vijay Narayanan
on May 19, 2009
Talking RubyMine with JetBrains Developer Dmitry Jemerov

One of the more interesting announcements recently coming to the Ruby community was the release of JetBrains RubyMine IDE for Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications. The Ruby community is known for not typically using an integrated development environment (IDE) such as .NET or Java developers use. Ruby developers usually stick to plain text editors such as TextMate, Vim and Emacs.

Robert Bazinet
on May 19, 2009
Virtual Panel on Cloud Computing

In this virtual panel, InfoQ wants to find out from leading cloud experts what are the benefits brought by cloud computing as well as the constraints in using them, what is better to use, a public or a private cloud, is the cloud interoperability needed, what is the difference between providing infrastructure or a platform, and how can a client enforce regulatory compliance.

Abel Avram
on May 19, 2009
The Economics of Service Orientation

This article explores the structural economic changes brought up by service orientation. Most IT organizations today are under enormous financial pressure trying to keep rising costs and flat budgets in synch. The restructuring brought about by the concept of services and reuse at the service level promises long lasting relief from the cost treadmill.

Parviz Peiravi Enrique Castro-Leon Mark Chang Jackson He
on May 16, 2009
Where To Now with Build Automation?

Most developers nowadays are familiar with the basic tenets of Continuous Integration, but arguably only a small proportion of these are fully benefiting from an optimized CI set up.This article, discusses taking Continuous Integration beyond merely being a glorified cron job and making it an effective, productivity-enhancing hub for development activity.

John Smart
on May 15, 2009
Spring BlazeDS Integration: What it Is and What Does it Change?

Spring BlazeDS Integration is a collaborative effort of Spring and Adobe. The goal: to allow the Spring development model to be used for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs) with Adobe Flex, BlazeDS, Spring, and Java technology. This article explores how applications are wired and explains how you can easily convert an existing Spring project to use this new integration.

Ryan Knight
on May 14, 2009

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